Top 64 Quotes by Arthur Erickson

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly.

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.